The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 87, July 1983 - April, 1984 Page: 71
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Southwestern Collection
video and audio tapes, government reports, and other publications
constitute the major portion of the papers. Also included is a col-
lection of gavels used by Clayton as speaker of the Texas House of
Representatives. The Bill Clayton Papers will be open for research
when processing is completed.
The Center for Big Bend Studies is being organized at Sul Ross
State University in Alpine. The nucleus of the Center is research ma-
terial gathered over half a century and now housed in the Museum of
the Big Bend and the Archives of the Big Bend. The objective of the
Center is to promote scholarly activities, research, instruction, and
publications relating to the historical, cultural, economic, and business
development of the Big Bend and adjacent geographical areas in
Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Mexico. This area is
being defined to encompass some 70,650 square miles within a radius
of 150 miles of Alpine.
Recent acquisitions at the Archives of the Big Bend include twenty-
one photographs, 1913-1927 of Alpine, Texas, the Mexican Revolu-
tion raid on Ojinaga, Mexico, and the Waldron Quicksilver Mine; the
records, 1933-1977, of the Alpine Chamber of Commerce; a 1795 map
showing various routes attributed to Hernado Cortes, crisscrossing
Mexico and reaching down into Central America; the papers, 1930-
1979, of Elton Miles, retired Sul Ross State University English profes-
sor; an appendix, 1878-1962, to the Benjamin F. Berkeley Collection
at the Archives of the Big Bend; a map of Mexico, or New Spain, c.
1711-1717; the business papers, personal papers, and early Alpine
photographs, c. 1890-1968, of Charles Livingston, Alpine funeral
home director and businessman; the legislative papers, 1963-1973, of
George Baker, former Texas state representative, sixty-sixth district;
Grey's New Map of Texas and the Indian Territory, 1876; the business
records, 1948-1978, of Shoemake Hardware Store, Marathon, Texas;
the personal correspondence, 1934-1967, of Clifford B. Casey, retired
Sul Ross State University professor and long-time chronicler of Alpine
and Big Bend history; and a map, 1849, of reconnaissance routes from
San Antonio to El Paso.
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Ambassador Edward A. Clark became president of the Texas State
Historical Association on Friday, March 3, 1983, at the Association's71
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